FAMILY VALENTINE
- Mike "Mutt" Rieck
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min read
For Valentines Day, take advantage of the day's theme and talk about Love with your family. The word gets used in a variety of ways, but you can explore any of them from the perspective of your faith with your family - What is a loving Christian marriage? How do we love our friends? How does God love us?
Find your own verses or use any or all of those listed below and have a conversation with your family about love. And remember, your time talking with them is how you show your love, not how much you know or how well you speak. Just talk with them.
Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Genesis 29:18 NIV
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:32 NIV
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 NIV
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:7-12 NIV
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 NIV
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
John 15:13 NIV
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:30-31 NIV